Civic body to hire agencies to address Delhi’s dumpyard issues

Seeking to accelerate its work on remediation of the three landfill sites in Delhi, the city’s municipal corporation has decided to hire an extra agency for each of the three massive dumpyards, official sources said on Friday.
The tendering process for hiring two new agencies has already been completed, they said.
In total, three more agencies—one for each of the three landfill sites—will be hired. One agency is already working on waste processing at Okhla, Ghazipur, and Bhlaswa landfill sites.
For landfill sites at Ghazipur in east Delhi and Okhla in south Delhi, the tendering process for hiring agencies has been completed. The working order will be issued for one of the sites this month, and it will be done next month for the other dumpyard, they said.
The tendering process to hire an extra agency for waste processing at the Bhalswa landfill site in northwest Delhi is expected to be completed in November, the sources said.
In July 2022, civic officials said that the deadline to flatten the Ghazipur landfill is December 2024, while efforts are on to raze the Bhalawa dumping site by July next year. The Okhla landfill is likely to be flattened by December 2023.
In 2019, the height of the Ghazipur landfill was 65 metres which was only eight metres less than the height of Qutub Minar.
In 2017, a portion of Ghazipur landfill had fallen on an adjacent road, resulting in the deaths of two people.